I dont wanna waste a soapstone brick nor do I have time right now to whittle! I may take the advice though. This may need to wait till the spring
Franks said:I dont wanna waste a soapstone brick nor do I have time right now to whittle! I may take the advice though. This may need to wait till the spring
Franks said:Because I work 60 hours a week, have a new baby at home and NFL Football to watch. A man must prioritize. The grant idea is an interesting one. Imagine getting a grant to put bricks in an oven and shoot em with a heat gun? Now that I think of it, scientists get grants to study stranger things.
Franks said:Not even close. It is go time at the fireplace shop with the cold weather here. I did stash a soapstone brick aside for it. I just need to weigh it and find some other masonry type materials of the same weight. I was going to try standard firebrick and pumice, just for kicks. I could always stack brick together to get the same weight, but would the air space in between each brick cause any issues with heat transfer?
Franks said:Because I work 60 hours a week, have a new baby at home and NFL Football to watch. A man must prioritize. The grant idea is an interesting one. Imagine getting a grant to put bricks in an oven and shoot em with a heat gun? Now that I think of it, scientists get grants to study stranger things.
Franks said:Yeah, I'm wondering if I should scrap the oven idea, contact Hearthstone and see if they want to send me a box of soapstone bricks for me to mess with in my showroom. I would love to completly line a steel stove with soapstone and see what happens. Video tape the seconday combustion, etc.
Franks said:Typing a 20 second blurb between customers is different than an experiment. But I'll go see what I can come up with.
Franks said:(SNIP) I'm doing this to see if what I have been led to believe for 20+ years is accurate, and if so, what kind of a difference there is.(SNIP)
Franks said:Your nerdiness almost has me talked out of doing this. I think I may just keep telling folks soapstone holds heat longer than firebrick and let someone else with a larger vocabulary do the testing. Your welcome to spend 6 days with me one week, Marty, and see what it consists of during the cold months.
Franks said:Pics!
I'm not looking to sell Soapstone because of this. I just have some replacement bricks I got from Hearthstone for a Clydesdale. I'm doing this to see if what I have been led to believe for 20+ years is accurate, and if so, what kind of a difference there is.
Now about this sister..it doesnt really need to be your real sister...or real at all